It seems like the meditation music I encounter sounds kinda lame... I feel like I could do better, but I don't know any technical things about meditative music and brainwaves and whatnot. So I was thinking... is the actual sound and artistry of the music more important than the technical stuff?

I didn't put much effort into this, but I'm just wondering what you think (those who use meditative music) and if you can give me suggestions on what you would want to hear. I'm pretty open to suggestions, I do have real instruments at my disposal, just throw any ideas at me, anything you can think of!

You might be interested in checking out the music resources listed by members in the Muse Music group. It is one of the specialized interest topic groups available on this Forum to aid your journey forward.

One of my favorite sources for 'ambient' and 'New Age' music is magnatune.com because you can listen to everything in their catalogue before deciding on what to purchase and it is very inexpensive when you do decide. For personal use you can even download the music files as CD quality ".wav" files for adding your own overdubbing soundscape if you wish.

Meditation is a form of prayer and Baroque music is prayer musically translated. The counterpoint aids you in 'ascending' and the tempo is conducive to the meditative state of mind, which in turn slows your breath and your heartbeat down to a relaxed tempo.If anyones interested I can see if I can find some links somewhere, some really amazing music!

[QUOTE=Korkelz;93481]It seems like the meditation music I encounter sounds kinda lame... I feel like I could do better, but I don't know any technical things about meditative music and brainwaves and whatnot. So I was thinking... is the actual sound and artistry of the music more important than the technical stuff?

I don't generally use 'meditation' music when I meditate. However, in the "meditative music" genre, I would highly recommend anything done by Kip Mazuy (from NZ). Also, Steve Roach and crew (Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig, etc.) have produced lots of good stuff.

Can you go into more detail about the binaural beat waveform you used? As I mentioned in a previous post, I use a binaural beat program to enhance my sessions, and am wondering what frequencies you think are most beneficial.

In 'Korkelz' composition, I added a multi-tract harmonic binaural beat track based on the first three octaves of the note of 'C' with the offset beat frequency of 7.83 Hz. ("Schumann Resonance"). This frequency falls near the threshold between Alpha and Theta brainwave patterns, which I felt to be a good state of consciousness for Aneros use. The musical note 'C' is associated with the Root Chakra - Muladhara, which I also felt was appropriate for Aneros use. I hope that answers your question.

Early on in the development of "HypnAerosession", I created several different background music tracks. Here are a couple of tracks assembled from music by Kevin Macleod. If anyone is interested they can download KM_music-01.mp3 & KM_music-02.mp3 for free. Each file is about 20 minutes long.If you like these tracks you can hear more of his royalty free music offerings -> hereIf you do decide to download some of his music please kindly make a donation to support such independent artists.

Although I'm certainly no stranger to binaural beats and I occasionally use it myself, I find it too boring to listen to over an extended period of time(>1hour). Also, the bunglings of dilettant 'composers' using them are hardly worthwhile.

The best MUSIC has to be baroque to get you relaxed and give you amazing melody at the same time.Baroque is a period of time when humanity was still childlike, innocent and pure. When music was not made for $$$ but for the deep desire of the composer to express himself to honor the highest. Bearing witness to this l'art pour l'art are the amount of classical composers that died 'on the job'.

Pergolesi while writing his 'stabat mater' aged only 26. JS Bach while leaving his IMO crowning achievement of his entire lifework Kunst der Fuge unfinished at age 65.The former is a miracle as he came from a non-musical poor background and showed such musical maturity at such a young age. The latter because it shows Bach still developing musically even at 65, while it is now assumed ppl peak musically in their early 20s.

This file also contains other more obscure composers from the Italian Baroque like Durante and D'Astorga

Thankyou so much for digging it out for me, sorry for making you work again, thought you had a list or something saved...i looked around looking for that piece but couldnt find it, guess i was looking in the wrong place.. i owe you one =)